We should punish litter louts with maximum fine

READING Anton Rippon's report, "Hoodies, cabbies and moaning minnies on buses" (January 8), about the streets littered with chewing gum and people just dropping litter, is it not time these people were caught and fined with the maximum? Surely this would hit home?

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I have never heard of anyone being fined for dropping litter in Derby, although penalties are in place to deal with litter louts. Nottingham is very different as this report from the Nottingham Post shows -
"MORE than 1,000 litter louts were fined for throwing rubbish from cars in Nottingham in only a year.
They were caught after Community Protection Officers spotted cigarettes and other litter chucked on to roads.
The litterers ended up with a £75 fine – reduced to £50 if they paid quickly – after their registration numbers were written down.
They were not the only people being targeted by officers patrolling our streets. More than 3,000 people were fined for littering generally; more than 800 were given penalties for persistently not taking in their wheelie bins after collection".
Read more: http://tinyurl.com/pyw4u4c

Would be interested to know what prosecutions for littering in Derby and how much is the fine ? As the Derby City Council lays off workers, reduces services, 100's millions in debt surely littering fines would be a ready income as there is so much littering in Derby?